MM: Someone told me once – a psychologist – that if you think, if you
make an exercise – you and me – and I tell you; ‘think about a red dinosaur’, you would just imagine it and you would see a red dinosaur, and
then I say to you; ‘now think about a blue dinosaur’ - you think about the
blue dinosaur and you see it inside your mind. Changing your thoughts is
as easy as that – she said. And therefore if you change your thoughts you
can change your emotions. Is it that easy?
ML:
I’ve learned from
behavioral
neurology and neuro-psychiatry that the area for
attention – for paying
attention to something
– it goes down to the
temporal lobe and the
hippocampus and the
amygdala attach emotional relevance to it, so
if you have a thought –
someone puts an image
in you - an image and
a sound they say ‘red
dinosaur’, right? And
then t ^H